beater

Meanings

Plural: beaters

Noun

• a worker who rouses wild game from under cover for a hunter
• an implement for beating
• Someone or something that beats.
• A kitchen implement for mixing.
• A stick used to play a percussion instrument.
• A person who drives game towards shooters in a hunting party, typically working in a group with other beaters.
• A papermaking machine for processing fibres by fibrillation in order to improve bonding strength
• An old or dilapidated automobile in poor operating condition.
• A weaving tool designed to push the weft yarn securely into place. It contains the comb-like insert reed and is sometimes a part of the loom.
• In the sport Quidditch or Muggle quidditch, a player a who attempts to hit the opposing team's players with bludgers and to block the bludgers from hitting their own team's players.
• A harp seal pup after its first moult and before its second moult.
• A shoe suitable for everyday wear, during which they may get dirty or scuffed, as opposed to more valuable shoes that one wishes to keep in good condition.
• A durable and usually inexpensive wristwatch.
• A sleeveless undershirt.

Synonyms

banger, beater, bucket, bucket of bolts, bucket of rust, clunker, crate, crock, drum stick, flivver, hooptie, jalopy, junker, lemon, old banger, rattletrap, rustbucket, shed, shitbox, shitbucket, shitcan, shitpot, tin Lizzie, wreck